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High resolution multimode ambient noise tomography across linear dense arrays in Los Angeles basin: Refining shallow ve…

An accurate velocity model of the Los Angeles Basin (LAB) is important for physics-based ground motion prediction based on realistic earthquake rupture scenarios. Previous efforts…

Identifying MESSENGER Magnetospheric Boundary Crossings Using a Random Forest Region Classifier

We present a new list of bow shock and magnetopause crossings based on automated region classification for the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Rang…

Future Climate Projections of Hazardous Convective Weather Using  an Ensemble of Environment-informed, Convection-permi…

Convection-permitting dynamical downscaling (CPDD) allows for an explicit representation of the convective storms that generate tornadoes, hail, severe thunderstorm winds, and l…

Runtime Bias Correction of Parameterized Lakes in Climate Models

A novel approach is presented for improving atmosphere-lake heat and evaporative fluxes in global and regional climate models. The method involves deriving and applying runtime co…

Spatial Compounding of Flash Droughts at different time scales in the Huaihe River Basin, China

Flash droughts, characterized by rapid onset and intensification, have received increasing attention. Previous studies focused on their identification, evolution, and climatic dri…

Viscosity and Flow Dynamics of the Rhyolitic Lava of Mount Arteni, Armenia: Insights from Numerical Modeling of Emplace…

The Arteni Volcanic Complex lies within the Ararat Plain, within the Aragats Volcanic Province (AVP) of western Armenia, and is noted for its remarkable diversity of obsidian type…

A Model-Agnostic Representation of Prairie Pothole Hydrology: Enhancing Generality and Implementation Across Hydrologic…

Modelling streamflow in low-lying, flat, and pothole-dominated prairie or Arctic regions is challenging due to variable non-contributing areas that influence how runoff translates…

Twenty-one years of global atmospheric chlorine inventories from Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spe…

We present atmospheric chlorine inventories over twenty-one years (2004–2024) and five latitude bands (82–60°N, 60–30°N, 30°N–30°S, 30–60°S, 60–82°S) across altitudes from the s…

Fractional diffusion framework for atmospheric turbulent transport: Self-similar solutions and universal scaling laws

Atmospheric turbulent transport exhibits anomalous scaling with variance growth $\langle r^2 \rangle \propto t^{2.5}$ observed in stratospheric balloon experiments, fundamentally …

Soil-Based Flood Risk Assessment Using Geotechnical and Statistical Analyses

Floods remain among the world’s most devastating natural disasters, yet conventional prediction models often overlook a critical variable: the geotechnical characteristics of soil…

The effect of the Earth’s rotation on wave-induced drift in finite-depth water: the role of unsteadiness

Wave-induced transport in the coastal zone can play an important role in the distribution of nutrients, plankton and pollutants including plastic litter. The effect of the water d…

Gravity Mapping of Lunar Mantle Material in South Pole-Aitken Basin Ejecta

The South Pole-Aitken basin (SPA) is the largest and oldest impact basin on the Moon and excavated through the crust and into the mantle early in lunar history. Here we use gravit…

A free and open-source tool for the automatic detection of mineral phases through the clustering of NIR hyperspectral i…

Spectral and hyperspectral data provide essential information on the surface composition of rocky planetary bodies, through which we can reconstruct and understand their geologic …

Simulating sea ice kinematics and polar ocean processes in a diabatic version of the NeverWorld2 case with Ocean Model …

Sea ice plays a vital role in modulating air-sea interactions in the Southern Oceans. Accurate simulation of sea ice and its coupling with the ocean usually requires high-resoluti…

An Enhanced Hydrometeor Detection Algorithm for Precipitation Identification in GPM

Precipitation is a fundamental component of the climate system, linking the water and energy cycles and regulating climate variability, feedbacks, and extremes. Accurate precipita…

Farm-Scale Retrieval of Subsurface Fluxes Using Joint Assimilation of Land Surface Temperature and Soil Moisture

Root zone soil moisture (RZSM) and subsurface fluxes such as capillary rise, root water uptake, and deep percolation are critical for effective irrigation planning and groundwater…

A global perspective on local sea level change: A comment

We replicate Voortman and de Vos (2025). Although we unfortunately lack access to their data and code, we qualitatively reproduce their results. We argue that their null result-no…

Toward Spectrally Consistent Solar Radiation Across Components in Earth System Models

math_shortcuts Earth system models (ESMs) often exchange solar fluxes and albedos between components using only two spectral bands (visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR)). Surfac…

Predicting fluvial sediment process domains and floodplain (dis)connectivity from high-resolution topography

Fluvial sediment process domains (a.k.a. sediment regimes) conceptualize rivers as discrete segments with characteristic and variable tendencies to source, move, and store sedimen…

Beyond Equilibrium: Kinetic Thresholds and Rheological Feedbacks Create a Potentially Complex 410 in Slab Regions

The seismic expression of Earth’s 410 km discontinuity varies across tectonic settings, from sharp, high-amplitude interfaces to broad transitions—patterns that cannot be explaine…

Improving micro- and macro-Algae Speciation Mapping for Management: A Field-Validated Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 Interco…

In recent years, the health of the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) on Florida’s east coast has fluctuated due to recurring harmful algal blooms (HABs). These events typically involve cy…

Global Geometric Structure in Earth Systems: Statistical Tests of High-Symmetry Spherical Grids Against Geophysical Data

We investigate whether large-scale geophysical features on Earth exhibit statistically significant alignment with fixed, high-symmetry spherical point sets. Using a unified comput…

From the ashes of VEI: Decoding explosivity, mass eruption rate and hazards in real time

Ash-producing volcanic eruptions are a major natural hazard. The explosivity of these eruptions has been described for decades by a semi-quantitative “Volcanic Explosivity Index (…

The role of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in modulating U.S. hazardous convective weather

Hazardous convective weather (HCW), severe storms producing tornadoes, hail, or strong winds, poses a significant threat to life and property in the United States (U.S.) east of t…

Investigating the relationship between El Niño Southern Oscillation and cirrus clouds

Cirrus clouds, consisted entirely of ice particles and found at the highest levels of the troposphere, play a critical role in Earth's energy balance. By reflecting incoming sunli…

A Machine Learning Approach for Volcanic Eruption Mass Estimation

math_shortcuts Traditional volcano monitoring relies on dense ground-based instrumentation (e.g., seismology, gravity and deformation), which is available for only a small subset…

Understanding Flash Drought Dynamics with Surface-Root Zone Soil Moisture and Vegetation Impacts

Flash droughts (FD) develop rapidly with severe agricultural and ecological impacts despite their shorter duration in comparison to prolonged droughts. While previous studies have…

Assessing hydrological model representation of irrigation and subsurface flow in a heavily anthropogenic influenced cat…

Evaluating water availability in catchments with widespread anthropogenic influences, such as the Hindon River Basin in India with intensive irrigation, groundwater abstractions, …

Sediment supply enhances bedload transport rate via longer transport distance

The rate at which sediment is transported along a stream channel bed (bedload) varies widely even at a given discharge, complicating prediction. Recent studies suggest that sedime…

The Mobile Mesopause: Responsible Local and Global Drivers

The drivers of the southern summer mesopause are investigated through a series of simulations that for the first time reproduce mesopause jumps using the K\”uhlungsborn Mechanisti…

Bayesian Calibration of a Large-Eddy Resolving Model towards Campaign Measurements with an Ensemble Kalman Smoother

Large-eddy simulations (LES) are commonly employed to study small-scale weather phenomena and to validate coarser models. Like larger-scale weather and climate models, they contai…

Searching for Ariel’s Aliens with the CRISPI (Compositional Regolith and Icy Surface analysis via Particle Impact) Mass…

CRISPI (Compositional Regolith and Icy Surface analysis via Particle Impact) is a proposed ridealong in-situ mass spectrometer (MS) smallsat mission to provide synergistic astrobi…

Shear fault formation in granite under high and transient co-seismic strain rates unveiled by ultra-fast X-ray imaging

During an earthquake a dynamic rupture propagates, causing fractures and permanent damage that modify the mechanical properties of the fault and its surroundings. Reciprocally, th…

Mainshock-induced stress changes modulate initial aftershocks on complex branching faults of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthq…

Large earthquakes can activate complex networks of aftershock faults. In such complex fault systems, what controls the spatiotemporal evolution of early aftershocks remains a crit…

On the Stability and Sensitivity of Climate-Informed Flood Frequency Models

Reliable estimation of design floods under climate change is critical for water resources planning yet remains challenging due to uncertainty in climate-informed statistical model…

Computing Effective Elastic Properties from Microtomographic Images: An Efficient 3D Digital Rock Workflow

Digital rock physics (DRP), using high-resolution 3D microtomographic rock images, is widely employed to predict elastic and transport properties of subsurface formations. Accurat…

Soil Erosion Assessment Under Changing Climate Using CMIP6 GCMs Integrated with SWAT

Soil erosion poses a significant threat to agricultural productivity and water resource sustainability, particularly in monsoon-dominated semi-arid basins. This study estimates so…

Layer-Dependent Diurnal Moist Static Energy Biases in the Unified Forecast System and Their Role in MJO Preconditioning…

not-yet-known not-yet-known not-yet-known unknown Accurate simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) requ…

Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Rheology of Mixed Hydrophobicity Sands

Post-wildfire debris flows can have devestating effects on structures and transportation lifelines. Surficial sandy soil layers become hydrophobic during wildfires, and post-wildf…

Mercury's tectonics record a damage zone from the Caloris basin-forming impact

The Caloris basin is the largest of the well-preserved basins on Mercury, which has left a dominant mark in the planet’s geologic record. Previous analysis of orientations of a gl…

Measurements of Nighttime Ionospheric E and F layers Using AM Radio Signals

Commercial AM radio transmissions (0.54 – 1.7 MHz) in the medium-frequency (MF, 0.3 – 3 MHz) band provide a promising yet underexplored resource for ionospheric remote sensing. Bu…

Detection of deleterious variants by protein language models is improved by nucleotide conservation at three evolutiona…

Predicting the effect of genetic variants can boost the efficiency of crop breeding. This calls for developing and applying novel approaches to predict mutation effects on plan…

Watershed Alchemy: Transforming Data into Hydrologic Understanding

Data driven models are emergent tools in the field of hydrology that can enable researchers to leverage the vast quantities of available data to skillfully predict hydrologic resp…

Field Evidence of Frequency-dependent Apparent Body-wave Velocity Transition

Frequency-dependent fluctuations of body-wave traveltimes in heterogeneous media have been extensively documented at global and laboratory scales, yet they have never been systema…

The slip distribution of the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake estimated from dispersive tsunami images observed by SWOT satell…

An Mw 8.8 earthquake on 29 July 2025 generated a tsunami near the Kamchatka Peninsula. The NASA-CNES interferometric SAR satellite Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) produc…

No Free Lunch? Improving LSTM Flood Predictions with Minimal Loss in Overall Skill

Extreme runoff events are among the most impactful hydrologic phenomena, yet remain difficult to predict due to their rarity, the skewed distribution of streamflow, dependence on …

Assessing zooplankton communities' influence on particulate organic carbon concentration

Zooplankton play a key role in setting the particulate organic carbon (POC) distribution in the ocean, but this remains poorly quantified on large scales due to the complexity of …

Diversified cropping system-a promising solution to sustainable development in agriculture

It is in urgent need to achieve sustainable production development in agriculture to curb the global warming trend. Diversified cropping systems provide such a promising solution …

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